Rusty Nail · X JAPAN

233 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 5:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
233
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-19, and 29 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
RUSTY NAIL · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32 and 62 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 32-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 18 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 70-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

233 bars across 10 sections: 124 keep time, 68 are fills, 9 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-23.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S6
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCVBS6S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rusty Nail?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rusty Nail hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

233 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Rusty Nail?

13 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 233 BARS ANALYSED
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